The Boys season 5 release date speculation, cast, plot, and more news
Jul. 18, 2024The Boys season 5 is heading our way! Here’s everything you need to know about Homelander’s return
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The Boys season 5 is officially in the works, and, sadly, it will mark the end of Prime Video’s wild superhero show. Don’t worry, though, because that only means that the final season will be more savage than ever before, as Billy Butcher and company say goodbye for good.
With the filming of the new batch of episodes already under way (we recently got afirst look at Billy), here is our guide to everything you need to know about The Boys season 5 release date, cast, plot, and so much more. Are you ready for a right diabolical time?
Following the cliffhanger at theending of season 4, The Boys season 5 will have the difficult task of wrapping up all the show’s open storylines, including the neverending battle between Homelander and Billy Butcher.In this guide to The Boys season 5, we’ve reunited the latest news, updates, exclusive quotes, and more.
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In early December, actor Karl Urban shared atypically Billy Butcher look on Instagram, covered in blood and holding up five fingers. The show’s creator Eric Kripke also shared abehind-the-scenes picture on Xwith some of the main cast, but so far those are all the updates we’ve had from set.
In arecent interview, creator Eric Kripke addressed the new season, revealing he “lives in absolute terror of becoming the thing we’ve been satirizing for five years.”
“The thing about The Boys is that it’s punk rock, and it hurts extra hard when punk rockers sell out. I’m really working hard not to sell out,” he added.
Stay tuned for more updates!
Yes, The Boys season 5 will be the final installment of the beloved superhero show. Unfortunately, this decision is unlikely to change since The Boys' team has been clear on the series' due date for years now.
During an interview withTV Line, showrunner Eric Kripke explained how they had decided that Season 5 would be the last entry all the way back when they were working on The Boys season 3.
The good news is that even if The Boys is over next season, The Boys universe is still thriving.
We are still waiting for The Boys season 5 cast to be confirmed in full. However, after the events of the last episode of season 4 (read ourThe Boys season 4 episode 8 recapfor more juicy details), we have some strong guesses on who will be returning to the series. Warning: spoilers ahead!
In our The Boys season 4ending explained guide, we broke down howClaudia Domit’scharacter, Victoria Neuman, won’t be making a comeback since she died for good. We also know thatJeffrey Dean Morganwon’t be returning as Joe Kessler. Joe died off-screen during the ‘Dirty Business’ episode, and we are pretty sure there won’t be any surprise resurrections for him either.
He told us at SDCC: “You know, what we realized was we really hadn’t explored the father-son relationship much between Homelander and Soldier Boy. There’s a lot of material there, how Soldier Boy feels about Homelander, how Homelander feels about his dad, and so we really wanted to dig into that relationship.”
Read the full expected The Boys season 5 cast list below:
While we don’t have an official plot synopsis for The Boys season 5 just yet, the season 4 finale gave us lots of clues about the series' direction. During the final episode, we saw Butcher go a bit off the rails, killing multiple people and running off with the Supe-killing virus.
So, needless to say, we expect Butcher to be leading the charge as the villain of season 5 as he stops at nothing to make sure Homelander dies by his hand. Speaking of Homelander, we also know that Sage has some plan for the blonde Supe, as she’s moving onto ‘Phase Two’ of her scheme that originally got Homelander close to the president. She already played a hand in getting Martial Law declared, so we’re curious to see what her true end goal is in the upcoming season.
If all of that wasn’t enough already, The Boys season 5 will have to address the whereabouts of Homelander’s son Ryan as well s A-Train. There is also the seemingly pesky case of brainwashing that befell Frenchie in the last episode of The Boys season 4 that needs some clarification. Oh yeah, and did we mention thatThe Boys season 4 post-credit scenealso revealed that Soldier Boy had been cryogenically frozen? We know he’s going to be unfrozen, but the implications of that fact are still a mystery.
Speaking toGamesRadar+ at SDCC, creator Eric Kripke also confirmed there was “no guarantee” that any of the returning cast would survive the final season.
“There’s no guarantee who’s going to survive because you don’t have to keep [the cast] for another season,” Kripke said. “So you can have really shocking, big things happen all the time. The writers, as we’re starting to cook it up, we’re really enjoying that.”
Basically, the final entry has a lot to get through and a lot at stake. And honestly, it seems like we’ll have to rely on spin-offs to help answer some of our questions. During an interview withVariety, Kripke confirmed that Gen V season 2 will take place directly after The Boys season 4, so we should have a clearer view of what plot points will be addressed in season 5 after the spin-off airs.
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